How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/15/novels-internet-laura-miller
How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/15/novels-internet-laura-miller
The King James #Bible gets the treatment it deserves | Books | The Observer
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/23/king-james-bible-reading-bath
However, amid the hoopla, there was, I suggested, one thing missing. Apart from a theatrical reading at the Globe, there was no scheduled rendering of the complete text by ordinary people, believers and non-believers alike. Anyone who remembers Alec McCowen’s unforgettable staging of the #Gospel According to St Mark will know that this is box office. Ulysses gets read out every year on Bloomsday. Why should there not be a secular round-the-clock recital of this founding text, from Genesis to Revelations ?
Eric #Hobsbawm: a conversation about #Marx, student riots, the new Left, and the Milibands | Books | The Observer
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/16/eric-hobsbawm-tristram-hunt-marx
Today, on a side road leading off from the heath, the Marxist ambition remains alive in the house of Eric Hobsbawm. Born in 1917 (in Alexandria, under the British protectorate of Egypt), more than 20 years after both Marx and Engels had died, he knew neither man personally, of course. But talking to Eric in his airy front room, filled with family photos, academic honours and a lifetime of cultural objets, there is an almost tangible sense of connection to the men and their memory.
New Huckleberry Finn edition censors ’n-word’ | Books | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/05/huckleberry-finn-edition-censors-n-word